March Traffic Up 12.5%!

Traffic in March increased 12.5 percent from March 2011, on a capacity increase of 9.0 percent. Load factor for March 2012 was 86.3 percent, an increase of 2.7 points from March 2011. Our preliminary completion factor was 99.6 percent and our on-time (1) performance was 80.0 percent. Our preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile for the month of March increased eight percent year over year.

TRAFFIC RESULTS

March 2012

March 2011

% Change

Revenue passenger miles (000)

2,954,270

2,626,257

12.5%

Available seat miles (000)

3,424,521

3,142,800

9.0%

Load factor

86.3%

83.6%

2.7 pts.

Revenue passengers

2,565,590

2,306,228

11.2%

Departures

22,840

20,932

9.1%

Average stage length

1,079

1,074

0.5%

Y-T-D 2012

Y-T-D 2011

% Change

Revenue passenger miles (000)

7,908,173

6,923,700

14.2%

Available seat miles (000)

9,536,235

8,510,811

12.0%

Load factor

82.9%

81.4%

1.5 pts.

Revenue passengers

6,852,681

6,038,693

13.5%

Departures

63,546

56,706

12.1%

Average stage length

1,077

1,075

0.2%

(1) The U.S. Department of Transportation considers on-time arrivals to be those domestic flights arriving within 14 minutes of schedule.

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